Very good advice, bpa, for which many thanks. I shall pin up your list
somewhere very visible.
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The automated installer will be very good as it should simplify
installs, make sure correct versions are installed and notify when
updates are available. However it will still depend on the extension
author to create the right package and since this is a new facility - I
expect some teething prob
I see.
It sounds like SC is trying to get to where it really needs to be: a
place where users can install things easily without pulling out too
much hair in the process. Assuming one has any hair left in the first
place.
Seriously: this sounds like a good development.
I'm still enmeshed in th
Lots of things see announcement but there was a rewrite of the streaming
(incl. transcoding) module which improves the sync capabilities. I
think the rewrite can enable me to tell SC that that trnascoding to
Flac is being used and so
A beta feature is enabling SB controller to be a SB player and
Understood. What does 7.3 have in store?
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It's a known problem due to fact that SC doesn't know SB is playing a
Flac stream - SC thinks it is a slow AACplus (e.g. 128 or 48k bit)
streams as guesses the amount of "music time" in the SB buffer wheras
SB has a 1500kbps Flac stream and has about 10 or 20 times less "music
time" buffered. Pro
I've been using my SB3 with the shiny new AACplus streams for a few days
now, and I notice that when a station (such as Paradise) has the
facility to provide a readout on the SB of what's playing (after you
press Now Playing), it takes quite a while for the Now Playing readout
to change to match t
I agree, and for once it's quite easy to do a reasonably rapid A/B test
by having an MP3 stream and an AACplus stream on the Favourites and
rapidly switch between. No contest, to my ears.
Thanks for the tuner2 tip, too.
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I'm a firm believer that AACplus gives a better sound than MP3 -
although initially I thought it would only give similar sound at a
lower bitrate as ISPs in Ireland have a low download threshold before
surcharges kickin.
This site http://www.tuner2.com/ has a lot of AACplus stations listed.
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Bpa, that worked a treat, and now I have excellent quality aacplus
streams on my SB3. I'm very grateful for your patience with my
fumblings and for your calm, methodical approach. Have you considered
international diplomacy?
For anyone wondering what my fussing was about, I suggest you give a
cou
No change it to
7.2.*
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At present the line in question reads...
7.0+
So do I change it to...
7.2.1+
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Edit the install.xml file.
There is a field called MaxVersion - change it to 7.2.*.
Restart SC
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Ah ha. I hadn't noticed this. It says ...
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Now what?
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Are there any error messages associated with AACplus plugin in the
Settings/Plugin page ?
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Hello bpa.
bpa;368904 Wrote:
> Yes - I think editing the various conf files similar to 6.5 should
> work.
>
> Thinking about your problem - can you check if there are any other
> convert.conf, custom-convert.conmf, types.conf and custom-types.conf
> files with any aacpplus mods that SC could b
Yes - I think editing the various conf files similar to 6.5 should
work.
Thinking about your problem - can you check if there are any other
convert.conf, custom-convert.conmf, types.conf and custom-types.conf
files with any aacpplus mods that SC could be finding andgetting
confused ?
Also che
Sorry I'm being dim here.
Is there another way to get aacplus feeds into SC without your
'plugin', perhaps? I seem to remember when I got it going in 6.5.x I
had to change some config files or similar.
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I repeat - the problem has nothing to do with mplayer.
SC cannot look into aacpmplayer.sh and see what the script does - SC
only knows about aacpmplayer.sh SC has marked the AACp filetype
disabled without even running aacplmaplayer.sh - SC from inspection has
decided it cannot run aacmplayer.sh
Apologies, bpa, for dragging you away from Alien work.
Could there be a prob with mplayer? In other words, my assumption is
that your aacplus 'plugin' tells an aacplus stream to look for mplayer,
and mplayer 'plays' it. So is there a way to test if mplayer is working
OK?
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I've been tied up trying to get AlienBBC updated after recent BBC web
change.
It all looks OK and should work so I tried to think what else could be
wrong but nothing immediately comes to mind. There may be an OSX
"Gotcha" regarding so many Plugin directories but I wouldn't know them.
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Hello bpa. Does the info in that last message help at all?
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Thanks bpa.
Doing a 'ls -l' gives
-rwxrwxrwx
which looks as if it's executable.
The full path to it is...
/Users/Tony/Library/Application\
Support/SqueezeCenter/Plugins/AACplus/Bin/aacpmplayer.sh
For 'Plugin Folders' on Settings/Status page I have...
/Users/Tony/Library/PreferencePanes/Squ
As I said above - if the entry is greyed out then aacpmplayer.sh has not
been executed - SC doesn't know or care about mplayer at this point.
* SC thinks aacplmplayer.sh is not executable
* aacpmplayer.sh is executbale but not in a directory that SC has
checked.
- if you do a "ls -l " on the aa
Hello again bpa.
(Please see my last message too.)
I assume that now we know the aacpmplayer.sh file is OK and executing,
the problem may lie with mplayer. Is there an easy way I can check if
mplayer is doing what it ought to do?
As I said earlier, the AACplus file types are shown in Advanced/
Hello bpa, I checked on a couple of OSX/Unix forums, and they say,
after some investigation, that it doesn't matter what the Finder says
of my file. As long as the file-modes say it is executable, then it is.
And they do say it is - so it is. Which I suppose means the problem lies
elsewhere. Any
Good, yes I'll try an OSX forum and report back. But, of course, in the
meantime if anyone OSX-inclined should be reading this and can offer
advice ...
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I think try an OSX specific forum to get an explanation/understanding
about why odd behaviour making the script executable.
>From AlienBBC experience I think there are only a few OSX users who
would reply but they are not online all the time.
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Understood bpa. Do you think it's worth me starting a new thread to try
to attract a helpful OSX user? I might try an OSX forum elsewhere on
the net too.
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Grey out means SC cannot find the executable that is specified in the
custom-convert.conf file (i.e. aacpmplayer.sh). Either the files does
not exist in the place SC expects or the file is not executable.
Making a shell script executable is not AACplus specific. The shell
script is just a variat
Just had a glance at my Settings/Advanced/File Types, and AACplus is
listed there, but the decoder options are greyed-out. Not sure if that
tells us any more about what's not right.
Are there really no Mac users on this forum who have installed bpa's
AACplus 'plugin' and got it working?
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1. Yes, I'm sure.
2. Created an empty file in Terminal with the touch command. This makes
yet another plain text file. Tried to make it executable with the chmod
a+x command, and it stays as a plain text file. What am I doing wrong?
Or is there a peculiar OSX thing I'm not doing right? I'm stumped
The trouble with OSX is that there are so few users around who can offer
help. I don't have OSX so all I can do is make general suggestions.
1. Are you sure you are trying to rename the file in the unpacked
directory and not within the ".tar.gz" file ?
2.
a. Create a empty file from scratch and
Ownership seems OK. Very odd behaviour. If I make a duplicate
('aacpmplayer.sh copy') it says it's a Unix executable file. If I
delete the 'copy' bit, it's back to a plain text file. If I leave a
space after sh, it stays executable. But I'm not convinced it is.
Perhaps I should take a step or two
The ownership of the file may be preventing you from changing the
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(Thanks: for some reason that was a Safari wobble. Downloaded fine in
Firefox.)
I now have the aacpmplayer.sh file, but it's a plain text file. I've
tried to make it executable in Terminal with a Unix chmod command but
it doesn't respond.
Is there a useable one available to download?
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It's a standard attachment so it's your browser that's messing it up.
Just click on the file and it should offer to download.
Check whether your browser has given the wrong name but the file
contents are correct - rename the file to get rid of the ".html" and
then see if you can untar the file.
Ah yes. Anyway, I tried downloading the 'plugin' at that link, but all I
get is a file called AACplusLinux.tar.gz.html, which is surely not what
I want. Doesn't do anything, anyway. Is there another way to get this?
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In the post below I created a "plug-in" to simplify the AACPlus
installation. It used to work for OSX but there have been changes to
mplayer distribution which may mean the file Bin/aacplayer.sh needs to
be tweaked.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=272774&postcount=19
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Thanks bpa.
My hard drive's top level does indeed lead to /usr/local/bin with an
mplayer file inside. But that might be a remnant from the old setup.
How do I check convert.conf settings? This is sounding familiar - I
think I had to do something to these for my previous 6.5.1 setup to get
AAC P
Normally mplayer would be save in /usr/local/bin assuming /usr/local/bin
is on the path. However where mplayer should be for AACplus decoding
depends on your convert.conf settings for AACplus.
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I meant AAC Plus, by the way.
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Just updated Slimserver 6.5.1 to Squeezecenter 7.2 on my Mac. I want to
play AAC streams, so will still need mplayer. It used to live in
[home]/Library/Application Support/SlimDevices/bin. Can I just copy
that old bin folder, which I put aside during my clean installation of
7.2, to the new instal
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